Posted on 07/28/2016 8:52:51 PM PDT by kevcol
The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom has struck down Scotland's plan to assign a government employee to every child to ensure – even if the family objects – each one meets the government's goal of being "safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included."
The argument against Scotland’s Children and Young People Act, the "Named Persons” plan, was that the government does not have the right to give to its employees private information.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Scotland has gone so far to the Nanny State side it may never crawl from under it.
Who are the sick people that think this is a good idea? A government “minder” assigned to each citizen at birth.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Been sleeping, folks?
They floated this in some states RIGHT HERE some 36 yrs ago.
Called a "Home Visitor", a gov't worker would be assigned to ALL homes where there was a child aged "0-16" (Pregnant to 18)(there ARE Home Health Visitors assigned to some homes - but this program was going to mandate that ALL homes with children would be assigned 'visitors'
this all-knowing gem of a person would evaluate the interaction between parent and child; could look in the frig to check for proper food, could report on how clean - or not - your house was, etc.
And the job qualification for this person?
"At least a high school education"
We fought them to the mat here, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Hitlery push for it - should we let her in.
We must be diligent - these people are among us.
"The first thing that a totalitarian regime tries to do is to get at the children, to distance them from the subversive, varied influences of their families, and indoctrinate them in their rulers’ view of the world.”
Under Nicola Sturgeon and the Euro Nats... they are not Scottish Nationalists don't let them pretend about that... Their desire is for Scotland to be a region under EU control with Nicola sturgeon as the local Governor.
Scotland is HORRIBLE - look at their Brexit vote.
Damned intrusive gub mint.
I won’t even let census workers in my yard much less gub mint nanny’s.
Don’t need people visitors now. We’re voluntarily implanted with many forms of audio and video devices with internet connectivity.
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